2008 Fender Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster (Daphne Blue)

Built for Clapton by Todd Krause at the Fender Custom Shop, this was one of a pair of main guitars during his Asia and Oceania tours back in 2009; at the concerts with Jeff Beck at the O2 Arena London in 2010; and also at the third Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago in 2010.

“There were three made,” Saiichi tells us, “two active and one passive and Eric quickly rejected the passive one. The way Lee Dickson used to number the guitars was with red sticker dots on the back – one red dot meant the ‘number one’ guitar and two red dots meant ‘number two’. The dots were removed before the guitars came to the sale, so we don’t know which was which, except to say that this is either number one or two – the main or the spare.”